February 8, 2022                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Maybe the Russians are doing what the Pentagon and State Department say they are doing.  But our mantra should be “Don’t trust unless you can verify.”

fromPolitico: Upcoming cases in Wisconsin and especially Pennsylvania could have a major effect.

fromGlennGreenwald/Rumble: Defenders of online censorship sayprivate companies have the right to make the decisions they want. That's not what's happening. Dems are pressuring companies to censor for them. 
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                              Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromWallStreetJournal: An innocuous question masks a demand for conformity with a regressive set of ideas.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: Prof. Friedman explains how free markets are a necessary precursor for individual liberty.

fromWashingtonExaminer: Male violent offenders and rapists have been given special accommodations because they identify as women, and presumably, those in charge of these provisions are afraid of transgender activists.

February 7, 2022                                             

fromReason: Lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. “Lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

fromAmericanConservative: As the continued coronavirus lockdowns come to be gradually recognized as the grave error that they were, we must acknowledge the discomfiting fact that every single elite institution in the world got the pandemic response spectacularly wrong.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party's liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.    Indoctrination and Censorship

fromReason: Obviously, the governor needs to leave his fancy Sacramento-area compound more often to see what's going on throughout the state.

fromTownhall: A new Senate report from the Foreign Relations Committee has the figure at around 9,000 minimum.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: Rothbard examines the irrational implications of the premise "we are the government."

February 6, 2022                                             

fromNYPost: For more than a century, lefties have talked about a working class revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — not at all — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.

fromZeroHedge: After enabling violent, far-left extremists, GoFundMe 'steals' millions from the freedom convoy.

fromAnti-War: Andrew Napolitano on potential use of Pegasus spyware. "Pegasus permits its users to type in anyone’s cell number and, without requiring a response from the operator of the mobile device, gain complete access to the full contents of that device." One of the government entities that purchased Pegasus is the FBI.
Police State America                                                                                                 The Government is Not Us

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Please watch the embedded video in which journalist Matt Lee accuses State Dept. spokesman Ned Price of veering into "Alex Jones territory" by making the claim that Russia plans to stage a "false flag" attack with "crisis actors" -- Price then sneeringly calls Lee a Russian propagandist.
Defense Versus The War Machine                                                                      The Government is Not Us

fromReason: The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.

fromConsortiumNews: The Republican senator cited Russian “threats,” but said going to war with Moscow over Ukraine was not in the interests of the U.S..

February 5, 2022                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

fromTheMachineGunnest: This is one of the most powerful examples of how in the world of anti-gun politicians and their associates, the law only applies to the little guy and not to the ruling class.

fromTheHill: As hard as it is to imagine, President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: From 1997, Paul Harvey delivers a dose of perspective in regard to statistics and the actual condition of Americans.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: A simple display of clear thinking.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: The government is not happy with the software's "rolling stop" function.

February 4, 2022                                             

fromReason: The Supreme Court prepares to hear a major Fifth Amendment case.

fromBrownstone: Most academics since January 2020 have lined up obediently behind even the most improbable self-deceptions of the covid leaders. They’ve acted out a rough reprise of the performance of their professional forebears in 1930s Germany, when a large fraction of German scientists supported the irrationality of the Nazis. 

fromJudicial Watch: Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit after the Capitol Police refused to provide any records in response to a January 21, 2021, request.

fromNYPost: President Joe Biden: “The Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights.” That misconception is why Supreme Court confirmations have turned so nasty.

fromUPI: According to the report, about 89,000 people quit jobs in healthcare and social assistance; 64,000 in accommodation and food service and 44,000 in construction.

fromMises: Memo to idiot politicos: Criminals don't fret about lacking gun insurance. This is simply a money grab with an eye to future gun confiscation. Who needs criminals, when government relentlessly robs you?

February 3, 2022                                             

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: A new poll shows 70 percent of Americans have moved on; too bad the rest work in the media. Support for vaccine mandates is plunging too.

fromCityJournal: Black females will have a mascot, but in making race and sex the paramount considerations for his Supreme Court nomination, President Biden will deal another blow to the quality of our most important institutions.

fromJonathanTurley: After conducting vigorous character assassination of anyone who even asked about Hunter's possible malfeasance during the election, the prestigious fish wrap is now free to report the truth.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: Williams was so much more than an economist and author. He was a fierce advocate of liberty and among the original inspirations for LibertyPen. This is a tribute to both his philosophy and integrity.

fromOrganicPrepper: Mainstream media does not even pretend to be interested in an honest debate anymore, which is unfortunate because watching opposing sides present arguments is how a lot of us learn things.

fromAmericanThinker: That which was long suspected is now confirmed.

February 2, 2022                                             

fromJonathanTurley: “Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake,” Justice Lewis Powell wrote. “This the Constitution forbids.”


fromFreeBeacon: The Biden administration is in possession of nearly one billion records detailing American citizens’ firearm purchases, far more than Congress and the public has known.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: Thomas Sowell explains how the concept of social justice is wholly incompatible with traditional justice and how the proponents of the philosophy must conflate the two to sell the notion.

fromDailyMail: The most pronounced shift away from Democratic party identification came in the third and fourth quarter of the year, coinciding with the fall as children returned to school.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: Restrictions dropped today -- not because they worked but because they didn't.   

February 1, 2022                                             

fromTheMachineGunnest: The firearms industry certainly is preparing for an explosion of concealed carry.

fromIConsortiumNews: Biden and Bojo are desperate for anything that distracts from the disasters they've created.

fromAmericanGreatness: America is battling an epidemic far worse than the Omicron plague.

fromBabylonBee: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Earlier this week, President Biden was spotted at Home Depot using color swatches to help him choose the next Supreme Court Justice.

fromSpiked: Neil Young’s grumpy war on Joe Rogan is a betrayal of everything he once stood for.

fromIssues&Insights: The left-biased American media, with a few notable exceptions, have essentially thrown a blanket over startling revelations of corruption. Move along, nothing to see here.     Media Bias on Parade

January 31, 2022                                             

fromIssues&Insights: The left-biased American media, with a few notable exceptions, have essentially thrown a blanket over startling revelations of corruption. For them, it is nothing to see here, move along.  Media Bias on Parade

fromZeroHedge: Governments waking up to the power truckers have as the movement spreads like wildfire across the globe could be what is needed to regain some medical freedom and at least put an end to forced vaccinations.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party's liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.

fromStossel/Rumble: STOP! You probably broke the law today! Criminal law has exploded. There are more than 300,000 federal laws alone. 98% are created, not by Congress, but by unelected bureaucrats.   

fromRussellBrand/YouTube: Inconvenient truths must be brushed under the rug.

fromMSN: Whether in lock-step or goose-step, the rest of the ruling class amplifies Biden's thirst for something, anything that provides respite from domestic catastrophe.

January 30, 2022                                             

fromWashingtonExaminer: A 26-year-old violent predator who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl will serve a two-year sentence at a juvenile facility despite being an adult with a lengthy criminal record.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery                                                         The Government is Not Us


fromPolitico: The billionaire is providing plenty of fuel for more soft-on-crime DAs and wealth redistributing Democrats. His contempt for America is palpable.

fromLibertyPen/Rumble: From a 1996 forum hosted by FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform, Sowell presented valuable insights about the dynamics of immigration.   The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Supporters of that policy assume it works, then desperately search for evidence to validate that conviction. What the teachers union wants, the teachers union gets.
Indoctrination and Censorship                                                                         The Government is Not Us

fromBPR: Loudoun County, Virginia, once again made the news as the transgender teen (biological male) convicted of sexually assaulting two girls will not have to register on Virginia’s sex offender registry.

January 29, 2022                                             

fromJonathanTurley/FoxNews: It was popular to advertise that "whites or males need not apply," but it also meant that minority groups (including Native Americans or Asians) that have never had a justice would be also barred.

fromPostMillennial: Last month, police Chief Chuck Lovell sent a letter to retired police officers asking them to return to the department. Only 2 of 81 retired police officers express interest to return.

fromMattStoller/Substack: "On the basis of his antitrust record, he is an unjust man. Breyer is the candidate of big business and monopoly in America.”

fromWashingtonExaminer: Parents are suing a Florida elementary school district after their child attempted to commit suicide following the school’s efforts to orchestrate her secret transition to a male gender identity. 

fromOutline: War should be guided by the principle of "only if we must, and only for our home." After all, it's a conservative impulse to avoid meddling with other people's business, especially other countries' business.

fromQuoteTheRaven/Substack: "It means buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye."

January 28, 2022                                             

fromJonathanTurley: From 2019 to 2021, independents feeling that free speech is secure in the country went from 59 percent to 46 percent. For Republicans, 52 percent to 27 percent. For Democrats the decline was only 2 percent.

fromFoxNews: Documents showing what was happening behind the scenes in the early days of the pandemic.

fromBrownstone: "Is a backlash coming? It is here. It is a bit quiet for now but it will not stay that way. The ruling class absolutely overplayed its hand this time. In the coming few years, they will rediscover that rulers in every society must acquiese to the consent of the governed over the long term."

fromPostMillennial: "Mr. Lee was terribly misguided, and his actions had tragic, unthinkable consequences. But he appears to have believed that he was, in Dr. King’s eloquent words, engaging in 'the language of the unheard.'"     Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromDailyWire: Afghanistan 2.0. Jen Psaki confirmed on Monday that Democrat President Joe Biden has no plans to use the U.S. Military to evacuate U.S. citizens out of Ukraine if Russia invades the country.

fromMoonbattery: San Jose is now the first city in the nation to mandate gun owners to have liability insurance and pay an annual fee under threat of firearm confiscation in order to access their "right." 

January 27, 2022                                             

fromReason: THIS is a much more persuasive example of Deep State nefariousness than January 6.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: By rehabilitating neocons and elevating them as thought leaders, liberals live in their framework. Thus are opponents of U.S. involvement in Ukraine deemed treasonous.

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: The world's most mRNA vaccinated countries now have shockingly high Covid infection rates. Hospitalizations and deaths are rising fast too. The mRNA experiment needs to stop. Immediately.

fromCaitlinJohnstone/Substack: If humanity is to survive into the distant future we're going to have to transcend the egoic mental habits which led us into this mess. We're going to have to transcend our unhealthy relationship with mental narrative which made us so easy to manipulate and propagandize.      The Pursuit of Happiness

fromWallStreetJournal: After equivocating for decades, will the Supreme Court finally declare that discrimination is illegal?  Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromWired: Resistance comes from consumers who are used to the ability to quickly fill up with gas and go, drive for long distances and hate recharging delays.

January 26, 2022                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media bullies, and government watchdogs.

fromAIER: He reigned as one of the world’s premier champions of freedom. A dedicated teacher and tireless defender of the classical-liberal values that he correctly understood motivated the founding of the American nation.

fromAmericanThinker: Having clearly and admittedly not followed the law respecting notice and time to challenge subpoenas, the committee argues the law simply does not apply to them -- they are above it.
The Government is Not Us                                                                               Indoctrination and Censorship

fromZeroHedge: HBO host Bill Maher and writer Bari Weiss received a somewhat-surprising rapturous round of applause from the mostly liberal audience during Friday's show after they dropped truth-bomb after truth-bomb.

fromSpiked: By attacking marriage, family and education, progressive elites are kicking away the ladder from the working class. The idea that working-class Americans who vote for Republicans are ‘voting against their economic interests’ has become dogma on the progressive left.

fromReason: Homeschooling, charter schools, and other “alternative” learning approaches are now mainstream.

January 25, 2022                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: As the 2022 midterm elections approach, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division—and self-inflicted madness?

fromMises: It is time to get back to normal life, and that starts with visible human faces.   
fromOperationFreedom/Rumble: An expose' of the extent government has used funding incentives as a means to beef up COVID numbers and proliferate tyrannical mask and lockdown dictates.   The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist: Not only are media pearl-clutching as much over Djokovic as they did over Peng Shuai, this time they’re on the authoritarians’ side.  

fromTippInsights: Nobody expects the Times to say in as many words that the vaccine skeptics are now partially vindicated. But the article came as close to conceding it as never before.

fromTheFreeThoughtProject: Politicians, wanting to end up on the right side of history, are now making unprecedented moves to remedy some of the problems caused by this immoral war.

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